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Sköll? (GIF-Movie; credits: Elisabetta Bonora)
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Sköll or Saturn XLVII (provisional designation S/2006 S 8) is a retrograde irregular satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt and Jan Kleyna on June 26, 2006, from observations taken between January 5 and April 30, 2006.
Sköll is about 6 Km in diameter (assuming an albedo of 0,04), and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 17,6 Gm in 869 days, following a highly eccentric and moderately inclined orbit.
It was named in April 2007 after Sköll, a giant wolf from Norse mythology, son of Fenrisulfr and twin brother of Hati.
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